Loading...
Name:Cottington's Hill
Hill number:18383
Height:229m / 751ft
Parent (Ma):2906  Walbury Hill
RHB Section:42: South-East England & the Isle of Wight
County/UA:Hampshire
Catchment:Catchment Boundaries, Test, Thames
Watershed:Greater Thames Estuary, Land's End to Dover, Dover to Cape Wrath, The Solent
Class:Tump (200-299m)
(Tu,2)
Grid ref:SU 52603 56672
Summit feature:ground inside edge of wood
Drop:49m
Col:180m  SU515564  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 174
(1:25k) 144W
Observations:E corner of reservoir may be as high; ground in field 25m SW at SU 52579 56664 is 0.5m lower
Survey:KR 2x Hand Level
GPS data:show GPS entries for this hill

Show Map

View on: Geograph  OS Maps  Streetmap  Magic  NLS  OTM

Full screen map

Show/hide GPS File for mountains/markers shown

Show/hide GPX File for mountains shown

Photos
Hill summit photo
(where available)
Hill portrait photo
(where available)

Click on a photo link to view photo on the hillsummits website

To contribute a summit or portrait photo for a hill
please contact the hillsummits website

N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way.  Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass.  Please quote the hill number and hill name.

Logged Descriptions  (logged by 59 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
From the parking area to the WSW along the row. Lovely walk. HP is just in the woods but went onto reservoir too as the fence was quite easy.clivevilla24/01/2024
Off track in field, trig point removed. No view due to low cloud.fnem04/12/2022
As PGCECampbell Singer05/01/2022
From the car park on B3501. Visited summit, alternative, and top of reservoir. Trig has been moved into the hedge a short way NW of summit.PGCE05/12/2021
Up the lane past Freemantle farm to the caravan site near the top. Good wander around in the trees and scrubColin Crawford17/10/2021
White Hill - The Gallops circular walkBasingstone11/05/2021
From the car park on B3501. Watership Down, Ladle hill following Wayfarers Walk. Plenty of people about taking advantage of a break in the rain and the allowed amount of exercise during lockdown 2. Back to the car park and then to Cottington's hill in the rain trying to spot the trig.Buck15/11/2020
From car park above B3051 summit. I followed the horseride, then path from the car park. This went through some access land and joined the RoW from the bottom of White Hill so gave a nice variation. Returned on RoW then Wayfarer's Way. Good views on a sunny day, continued along downs to Ladle Hillpwheeler22/07/2020
Kingsclere and Hannington Walking Circular WalkBasingstone16/06/2020
Surveyed. Summit not at DoBIH location. Galltywenallt19/05/2020
Run: Cottington's Hill -> Caveley Hill -> Beacon Hill -> Sidown Hill -> Ladle Hill -> Watership Down. Did loop of reservoir fence.maclrc01/03/2020
From W.jimbloomer04/11/2019
Walked up from White Hill car park bagging the moved and toppled trig on the way.Dugswell203/09/2019
From the White Hill car park (free) I followed the RoW towards the summit. A gate gave access to the summit field and I also visited the wood to be sure. Walk continued to Watership Down.Sprog20/02/2019
Walked up from White Hill car park. Agree natural high point is probably in wood but also did the reservoir for completion.Ramblingpaul26/12/2018
Bump in trees seemed higher than field. Solo. (Walked up with Pete but he stayed on the path). Climbed onto the covered reservoir too, just for fun!Dangerous Dave26/11/2018
Kingsclere (bus from Basingstoke) - Cottington's Hill - Watership Down - Ladle Hill - Beacon Hill - Sidown Hill - Caveley Hill - Kingsclere.Mark Jackson20/10/2018
Then on to Wallingford to view my first FBM. Good job it was in a little railed enclosure, or I would never have found it. Completely overgrown with ivy, which I had to clear off with my walking pole, for a photograph.ngthack17/08/2017
Climbed up from the White Hill car park - on our '25 Trig Points in a Day' half term challenge.DanMaisieBex17/02/2017
Walked over from west of Watership Down on FP. High point in field and Trig moved into hedge.PeterD13/11/2016
The very tall summit mast -Hannington Transmitter Station broadcasts BBC, ITV and radio. There is a baffling complex history of its various UHF frequencies which had to be chosen to avoid interference with European TV channels. At 151m tall its a useful yardstick for what a marilyn p150m prominence looks like. On this clustered summit by the reservoir is a small Certified Caravan Club site - one of 2,500 UK wide sites limited to 5 caravans -here a small field with water tap, electric and bins (and presumably a pretty good TV signal being under the transmitter?) I found and managed to touch over the fence the moved trig in the thicket after going to high point in open field.Up and down by different paths from NW foot of hill.Chris Pearson12/10/2016
From high point on B3051. With TJB.trimarc208/07/2016
Walked up from Watership Down, just got to the top as the sun set. Walked back in the dark. Great fun.DanMaisieBex17/09/2015
From Car Park to W, accidentally walked along new path along edge of access land, which was much more interesting than the return along row's. Kept on field for last 150m to hp, now planted with clover: no sign of trig.GordonAdshead16/08/2015
Three Legged Cross to Kingsclere.Smudge19/06/2015
Cottington's Hill, Watership Down and Ladle Hill from car park on B3051.rhalstead15/03/2015
Walked up path from car park on the B3051. High point unmarked in arable field. If you visit, say hello to the poor trig, brutally attacked and now cowering in the field hedge.RichardM11/01/2015
Visited whilst bagging the trig (which has been moved). Pleasant short walk over Stubbington Down from roadside car park to the W.jonglew05/01/2014
Big car park to the west at White Hill on B3051. Busy today, but everyone else walking the opposite direction to us, onto Watership Down. Good tracks and paths all way to reservoirs, then easy trespass over fence into field with highest point. Don't look for Trig as it has been removed from field and dumped into hedge by reservoir (sacrilege!). Great views to north.Hillsidenick01/09/2013
RHW17/09/2008
Strictly speaking probably never visited the highest point but certainly walked the footpath just to the north when we lived in Kingsclere. Good enough for these purposes.Herbert Anchovy01/06/2002
approxChimp01/06/2002
Halfdecent10/03/2024
Martin R26/06/2023
PaulOnFoot08/04/2023
StephenPSmith14/05/2022
TedCymru20/03/2022
daveyf200104/08/2021
Badders07/05/2021
Adrian209/01/2021
mazz09/01/2021
Matt27/09/2020
Tony J20/09/2020
SteveG19/05/2020
mae19/01/2020
clique21/10/2018
arjh06/05/2018
DC11main18/09/2017
ijpowell08/09/2017
Swindon Bagger21/05/2017